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'''Basic Trope''': A {{ShapeShift|ing}}er transforms into TheHero's loved one, giving him hesitation.

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'''Basic Trope''': A {{ShapeShift|ing}}er {{Shape Shift|ing}}er transforms into TheHero's loved one, giving him hesitation.
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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???Charlie is aware of Bob's crippling weakness in regard to Eva and so he implants the idea into her so that she can use this as a means of breaking him.

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* '''Defied''': Eva doesn't go for old wounds, seeing them as a cheap way to achieve a win.

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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
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Eva doesn't go for old wounds, seeing them as a cheap way to achieve a win.win.
** Bob's instant response to seeing Alice again is to open fire. As he figures it, Alice is dead so either she's a hallucination or ghost (won't be harmed, he'll blame shooting at thin air on being spooked by something if necessary), a zombie or clone (better safe than sorry, he's making her rest again) or a shapeshifter (such as Eva).

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* '''Averted''': This strategy never comes across Eva's mind

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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This strategy never comes across Eva's mindmind
** Eva transforms into someone Bob has never met.

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* '''Implied''': Bob inexplicably sees Alice after her death, and there was previously a throwaway line about shapeshifters being discovered.



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'''Basic Trope''': A ShapeShifter transforms into TheHero's loved one, giving him hesitation.

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'''Basic Trope''': A ShapeShifter {{ShapeShift|ing}}er transforms into TheHero's loved one, giving him hesitation.
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* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???"We're contractually obligated to have Alice's actress appear in another episode, but the character's dead. How about we have Eva shapeshift into her to emotionally freak out Bob?"

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* '''Subverted''': Eva transforms into Alice, but Bob gives no response...

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Eva transforms into Alice, but Bob gives no response...
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** Alternatively, all the transformation manages to do is piss Bob off. "You don't deserve to wear that face!"

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* '''Justified''': Eva knows about Bob's past to hit where it hurts.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Eva knows about Bob's past to hit where it hurts. hurts.
** Eva feeds off misery to live, and her time is nearly up so she takes Alice's form to feed off Bob's emotions.
** Eva isn't well adapted[=/=]trained for direct confrontations, with her shapeshifting abilities being better suited for stealth and infiltration missions. So, when she ends up engaged in a duel with Bob, she decides to take Alice's form to confuse him and try to make a shift escape.



* '''Enforced''': Eva feeds off misery to live, and her time is nearly up so she takes Alice's form to feed off Bob's emotions.

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* '''Enforced''': Eva feeds off misery to live, and her time is nearly up so she takes Alice's form to feed off Bob's emotions.???



* '''Invoked''': Eva takes on Alice's form to buy herself time from Bob's attacks.

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* '''Invoked''': Eva takes on Alice's form to buy herself time from starts studying all the information regarding Bob's attacks.lost sister, just [[CrazyPrepared in case she ends up in trouble and she has to use that transformation against him]].
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* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???Eva feeds off misery to live, and her time is nearly up so she takes Alice's form to feed off Bob's emotions.



* '''Invoked''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???Eva takes on Alice's form to buy herself time from Bob's attacks.
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* '''Straight''': Eva transforms into [[TheHero Bob]]'s DeadLittleSister Alice, forcing Bob into a HeroicBSOD.

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* '''Straight''': Eva transforms into [[TheHero Bob]]'s DeadLittleSister dead little sister Alice, forcing Bob into a HeroicBSOD.



* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh yeah, transform into my DeadLittleSister, ''very'' original."

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* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh yeah, transform into my DeadLittleSister, dead little sister, ''very'' original."

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* '''Inverted''': Eva transforms into Bob's sworn-enemy, and taunts him in order to make him lose his composure and judgment.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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Eva transforms into Bob's sworn-enemy, and taunts him in order to make him lose his composure and judgment.



* '''Deconstructed''': Eva transforms into Alice, but instead of pressing a BSOD button, it pressed a BerserkButton. Eva [[CurbStompBattle soon finds herself in fifteen separate pieces, with enough of her body to still be torn apart]].
* '''Reconstructed''': Eva decides to stay as Alice, [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred so that while Bob is killing her, it would look like he's killing Alice]], thus [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone BSOD moment]].



* '''Deconstructed''': Eva transforms into Alice, but instead of pressing a BSOD button, it pressed a BerserkButton. Eva [[CurbStompBattle soon finds herself in fifteen separate pieces, with enough of her body to still be torn apart]].
* '''Reconstructed''': Eva decides to stay as Alice, [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred so that while Bob is killing her, it would look like he's killing Alice]], thus [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone BSOD moment]].



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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
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* '''Exaggerated''': Eva transforms into Bob's dead family, [[DrivenToSuicide driving bob to suicide]].

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* '''Exaggerated''': Eva transforms into Bob's dead family, [[DrivenToSuicide driving bob Bob to suicide]].

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* '''Inverted''': Eva transforms into Bob's sworn-enemy, and taunts him in order to make him lose his composure and judgment.

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* '''Inverted''': Eva transforms into Bob's sworn-enemy, and taunts him in order to make him lose his composure and judgment.judgment.
** Eva is on Bob's side, and transforms into Bob's mentor to give him more confidence.
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* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???Eva turns into [[DisappearedDad Bob's neglectful father]], hoping to start a HeroicBSOD. [[CurbStompBattle Cue the parental abandonment issues.]]
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* '''Reconstructed''':

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* '''Reconstructed''':'''Reconstructed''': Eva decides to stay as Alice, [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred so that while Bob is killing her, it would look like he's killing Alice]], thus [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone BSOD moment]].



* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Defied''': ???Eva doesn't go for old wounds, seeing them as a cheap way to achieve a win.

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